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Pinping Sun
Phone: 509-263-9961
E-mail: pinpingsun@gmail.com Title: RF and Mixed Signal IC Designer
Company: Washington State University Work PINPING SUN psun@eecs.wsu.edu Tel: 509-263-9961 I. OBJECTIVE Skilled design engineer with 9 years circuit design experiences (3 Industry + 6 University Research) in high speed analog/RF circuit design and digital circuit design. II. CIRCUIT DESIGN EXPERIENCES: Analog-mixed circuit design [ Amplifier, frequency divider and PLL] RF Circuit design [VCO and mixer] Serializer/De-Serializer [2.5 GHz and 10 GHz Demux ] Broadband MMIC design [ PIN diode, SPDT switch, Attenuator] Silicon Characterization/Lab/Equipment Skills Experienced in 0.13/0.18/0.25 µm TSMC CMOS process III. EXPERIMENT SKILLS: Measurements: Familiar with HP 8510 Network analyzer and HP 4145 Semiconductor Parameter analyzer, Agilent VEE remote control programming and Spectrum Analyzer, on-wafer RF probe CAD tools: Cadence, HSPICE, Spectre/Spectre RF, Virtuoso, Physical Verification Tools (DivaDRC, LVS) ADS, WinSPICE, Matlab, Synopsys Programming: C languages, Verilog HDL IV. EDUCATION: PhD in Electrical Engineering, Washington State University, PA: 3.79/4.0 expected: 08/2008 Master in Electrical Engineer, National University of Singapore:2002-2004 Bachelor in physics Electronics, Fudan University, 1994-1998 V. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Washington State University, Pullman, WA Research Assistant 08/2004- present Research on the design of low-voltage low-phase-noise voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs). Designed and fabricated 5-GHz-band LC VCOs in 0.18 µm CMOS processes. Research on the design of low power digital and analog frequency divider. Designed and fabricated 5-GHz-band frequency divider in 0.25/0.18 µm CMOS processes for PLL applications. Research on the design of high speed broadband SiGe MMIC design. Designed and fabricated 2G-18GHz PIN diode SPST switch, SPDT switch , attenuator and phase shifter in IBM 7HP, Jazz SBC18 and SBCH2 process. Have a wide knowledge on RF-transceiver system architecture and circuit design including PLL, VCO, Mixer, RF switch and frequency divider National University of Singapore 11/2001-11/2003 Member of low cost & high performance optical components for access network, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore Helped to develop the first 0.18 µm CMOS SONET OC-48 transceiver in Singapore Helped to develop a OC-192 (10 Gbps) transceiver for optical transmission Designed and tested a 2.4 Gbps 1:4 De-Serializer(demux) in a 0.18 µm CMOS process Designed and tested a 10 Gbps 1:4 De-Serializer(demux) in 0.25 µm SiGe BiCMOS process T-SQUARE MICROELECTEONICS, Shanghai, China 08/1998-08/2001 ASIC Design Engineer Designed the instruction, data cache and load-store module for 250 MHz RISC CPU. Physically implemented circuits and analyzed the timing budgets using Synopsys Synthesis. Pre-layout and post-layout verifications for the RISC CPU chip VI. AWARDS/SCHOLASTIC DISTINCTIONS Student travel grant at Washington State University 05/2007 Best student poster in Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (CDADIC)
winter meeting 07/2006 Best Student Presentation in the inaugural Symposium on Microelectronics held by the Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore 09/2003 Research scholarship, National University of Singapore 11/2001-11/2003 Graduate Student Research Stipend, the institute of Microelectronics, Singapore 2003 Five times winner of the Government Scholarship, Fudan University, China 1994-1998 VII. PUBLICATIONS P. Sun, P. Upadhyaya, D.Jeong, D.Heo, "Silicon-Based PIN SPST RF Switches for Improved Linearity and Insertion Loss", submitted to IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Tech., P. Sun, Y. Kim, D. Heo,, "An Ultra Low Power Analog Frequency Divider", accepted by the proceeding of IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium,2008 Y.S. Suh, P. Sun, I. S. Kim, J. S, Song, and D. Heo, "A Fast Computation Method in Frequency Domain for Power Ground Plane Impedance Calculation Using the Mobius Transform," accepted by IEEE Tran. Adv. Packag. P. Sun, P. Upadhyaya, D.Heo, " A High Performance Double Bias Tuning Complementary VCO," Technology and Talent for the 21st Century, 2007 P. Sun, P. Upadhyaya, D.Jeong, D.Heo, G.. La Rue, "A Novel SiGe PIN Diode SPST Switch for Broadband T/R Module," IEEE Microw. Wireless Compon. Lett., pp.352-354 , May 2007 P.Sun, P.Upadhyaya, L. Wang, D. Jeong, D. Heo, " High Performance PIN diode in 0.18 µm SiGe Process for Broadband Monolithic Control Circuits", in Proc. European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conf., pp. 149-152, Sept. 2006. L. Wang, P. Upadhyaya, P. Sun, D. Heo, "A 5.3GHz Low-Phase-Noise LC VCO With Harmonic Filtering Resistor", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 3237-3240, May 2006. P. Sun, L. Wang, P. Upadhyaya, and D. Heo, " High Isolation 10GHz to 20 GHz SPDT Switch Design Using Novel Octagonal PIN diode structure," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices, Apr. 2005, pp. 38-41. L. Wang, P.Sun, D.Heo., " A 15-GHz Single-Pole Double-Throw Annular MOSFET Switch for space application", in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices, Apr. 2005 P. Sun, Y. Lian and A. B. Ajjikuttira. "A 10-Gb/s, 1.5-volt low-power 1:4 demultiplexer for optical fiber communication", ASIC, 2003. Proceedings. 5th International Conference, Vol: 2 , 21-24 Oct. 2003，pp.1082 - 1085 P. Sun, Y. Lian and A. B. Ajjikuttira., "A 2.4-Gb/s Low-Power 1:4 Demultiplexer for Optical Fiber Communication", Inaugural Symposium on Microelectronics, the Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, 2003 Academic Services: Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems | 